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To handle the number-crunching that Big Data will need in the future, hard drive read and write speeds need to keep up with capacity gains. To that end, Seagate has now unveiled Multi Actuator technology, which will allow two sets of data to be written or read from the same drive at the same time.

Businesses are being forced to store huge amounts of data, and manufacturers are ramping up the capacity of their hardware to cope with the load. The latest product of that practice is the 60TB SAS SSD from Seagate, the world's largest solid state drive.

If you're anything like us, you'll find yourself regularly having to delete games from your Xbox One's hard drive in order to make room for new titles. Seagate's latest product is designed to combat that exact issue, providing an extra 2 TB of space in a compact, purpose-built package.

For many, solid-state drives are the way to go because of the speed advantages they offer over traditional HDDs. But HDDs still hold the advantage when it comes to cost per GB. It's with that in mind that Seagate has started shipping the world's first 3.5-in HDD with a whopping capacity of 8 TB.

Seagate, which purchased Samsung's HDD division in 2011, has begun shipping the world's thinnest 2 TB hard drive. The Samsung Spinpoint M9T, which comes in a 2.5-inch form factor, measures 9.5 mm thick, giving notebooks a bit more storage space.

Seagate has demonstrated a milestone storage density of 1 terabit per square inch using a next-generation recording technology called heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) that promises 60 TB hard drives.

Seagate has begun shipping the second generation of the Momentus XT hybrid solid state/hard drive that it claims is the company's fastest ever drive for personal computers.

Seagate and Hitachi GST have each unveiled 4TB external hard drives, with both set to offer Thunderbolt interfaces.

Seagate's GoFlex Satellite combines a 500GB portable HDD with a built in wireless streamer to let users stream media to mobile devices.

Seagate has announced the world's first 3.5-inch hard drive with 1TB of storage capacity per disk platter.

Western Digital ships 3 TB SATA drives

Seagate has announced its first foray into solid state drives, the Pulsar.